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Girl With a Broom – circa 1910
We met Bessie Douglas in earlier postcard stories. Bessie was growing up in Anselma, a small community that grew up around a mill on the
We met Bessie Douglas in earlier postcard stories. Bessie was growing up in Anselma, a small community that grew up around a mill on the
Because they were plentiful and ubiquitous, postcards illustrate the changes in culture and the popular enthusiasms of the early 20th century. In other postcard stories
Miss Pearl Washington lived in Monticello, the village in the Catskills of south-central New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello,_New_York In February of 1910, Pearl was celebrating a birthday.
Mrs. George Eaton lived near Monroe, a city or town in Wisconsin. (One city and two towns in Wisconsin are named “Monroe”.) The city of
Florence Rumsey was the “school-ma’am” for a school in Minnesota. (I cannot decipher the postmark.) In January of 1912, she sent a postcard to Mr.
This postcard photograph was mailed between two communities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Miss F. Grace Bear lived in East Petersburg, and she was celebrating a
Benjamin Stauffer was born in 1900, so he was about 10 years old when he received the Christmas postcard from his cousin, Anna. We may
Tellings stories from the past.